Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,514 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

Evelyn Granville
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Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924- )
Louis Carter
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Louis Augustus Carter (1876–1941)
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(1837) William Whipper, “Non-Resistance to Offensive Aggression”
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Yvonne Braithwaite Burke (1932- )

Explore Global African History

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Naomi Osaka (1997- )
John Magufuli
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John Pombe Joseph Magufuli (1959- )
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Samuel Johnson (1846-1901)
UNIT 342A: L-R, Alberta Hunter, Alfred Elkins, Ollie Crawford, Leonard Caston, Mae Gaddy & Joe Taps Miller
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Alberta Hunter and the Rhythm Rascals in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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From Slave to Litigant: African Americans in Court in the Post-Civil War South
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: For His Times and Ours
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Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1912-1936
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Arvarh E. Strickland, 1930-2013: An Historian’s Life

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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